The first ever Building Resilient Communities Convergence, at the beautiful Solar Living Institute, brings together the best of the Northern California Permaculture Convergence and the Northern California Regional Transition Network Conference for an action-packed weekend designed to build a powerful movement for community resilience.

Join Transition Movement founder Rob Hopkins and activist Gopal Dayaneni of Movement Generation for a conversation on what it will take to rebuild our communities to be just, sustainable, and resilient.

The CooperationWorks! Cooperative Business Development Training Program is a rigorous course for participants to develop the skills to start a new cooperative and assist groups to start new cooperative enterprises.

Come spend a day delving into the local investment revolution from Michael Shuman, one of the nation's foremost authorities on the subject. Whether you are an investor, entrepreneur, consumer, policymaker, or student, you will never think about investment the same way.

Money & Life is a passionate and inspirational essay-style documentary that that asks a provocative question: can we see the economic crisis not as a disaster, but as a tremendous opportunity? This cinematic odyssey connects the dots on our current economic pains and offers a new story of money based on an emerging paradigm of planetary well-being that understands all of life as profoundly interconnected.

Come enjoy an evening of extraordinary musical talent at the first annual Jam of the Andes featuring the Manabi Salsa Band. A 12-piece salsa band, a colorful presentation on conservation efforts in a remote mountain village in Ecuador and free beer will make for a wonderful evening!

Hear YES! co-founder David Korten, along with Barbara Marx Hubbard, Acharya Judith Lief, Rabbi Arthur Waskow and The Rev. Richard Ciz, examine the impact of sacred stories on our ability to live in relationship with one another and nature as a peaceful, creative, just and sustainable Earth community.